“If I had it to do over…” It is not a productive thought, beyond its ability to make one learn from one’s mistakes and so apply those lessons forward, but Spock spent most of his later life pondering this. There was all the time in the world and there wasn’t time, wasn’t time, it was never the right time. And then he was gone.

And then Spock got to do it over.

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Or: Timelines is a garbage gacha waifu harem game but I used it as a framing device for Kirk/Spock fanfic, because weirder shit has happened in the mainline series anyway.